The Jury

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IRENE DIONISIO
Irene Dionisio (Turin, 1986) is a filmmaker, screenwriter and a visual artist. Her productions include vi- deo installations and documentaries which were presented in many international festivals (Turin Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Taiwan Film Festival, etc.) and received various awards such as the Audience Award at the Festival dei Popoli, Florence, the Carid- di Award at the Taormina Film Festival, the Solinas Award for Best Documentary Screenplay, the Scam Award and the Jury Prize at Cine Verité Film Festival in Tehran. Her video installations have been shown in various exhibition spaces including Palazzo Gras- si in Venice, the Berardo Museum in Lisbon and the MAMBo Museum in Bologna. Her first fiction film,“Le ultime cose” was presented at Venice International Film Critics Weekwas a finalist for the David di Do- natello Award, the Italian Golden Globe Award and took a Silver Ribbon Award for best screenplay. In 2020 Irene won the Giuseppe Bertolucci Award and in 2021 she was awarded an American Dream Fel- lowship for Artist. For three years she was the artistic director of the historic LGBTQI – Lovers festival, ma- naged by the National Museum of Cinema in Turin